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Prediction Models for Accurate Data Analysis: Innovations in Data Science
Published in Kavita Taneja, Harmunish Taneja, Kuldeep Kumar, Arvind Selwal, Eng Lieh Ouh, Data Science and Innovations for Intelligent Systems, 2021
Balwinder Kaur, Anu Gupta, R. K. Singla
Uniform/Majority Voting: Voting is a prominently used combination method in MCS. This combiner approach is centered on voting, a concept used in democratic countries. Every classifier gives output and the final output is based on the number of votes received by a class. In this combination approach, the combiner counts the occurrences of each class and evaluates the vote count obtained by every class (Gargiulo et al., 2013). The classification of unknown instances is performed as per the maximum number of votes obtained by a class. Majority voting is categorized into three different versions, where the class is selected by the ensemble: unanimous voting, where all classifier agrees on a common class; simple majority, predicted by at least one more than half the number of classifiers votes; or plurality voting, where it receives the maximum number of votes, whether the total votes may or may not exceed 50% (Polikar, 2012; Polikar, 2006).
Groundwater Planning and Management
Published in Mohammad Karamouz, Azadeh Ahmadi, Masih Akhbari, Groundwater Hydrology, 2020
Mohammad Karamouz, Azadeh Ahmadi, Masih Akhbari
In a consensus-oriented process, people work together to reach as much agreement as possible. A unanimous consent, however, refers to the outcome of a vote when all the members agree on a solution, strategy, or opinion (Hartnett, 2018). In the water-related conflicts, unanimity could be unlikely and the negotiation processes are usually consensus-oriented. Therefore, in addition to the aforementioned actions, agreeing on the merits of the disagreements is often unavoidable.
Towards a rights-based approach in EU international river basin governance? Lessons from the Scheldt and Ems Basins
Published in Water International, 2019
Herman Kasper Gilissen, Cathy Suykens, Maarten Kleinhans, Marleen van Rijswick, Karianne van der Werf
Nonetheless, implementing a rights-based approach would require a complete substantive overhaul of current legal and governance arrangements and would depend on the willingness and perseverance of member states sharing transboundary river basins. Although the current provisions of the WFD and FD do not prohibit member states’ adopting a rights-based approach for their shared IRBDs, the adoption of more compelling (overarching) provisions thereto in those directives seems unfeasible, especially considering the laborious process of formulating those provisions in the first place (European Commission, 1997; Suykens, 2018b). This becomes even less feasible because such amendments to EU legislation require unanimous voting in the Council, as they will touch on quantitative management of water resources and/or affect the control over the physical territories of member states (Article 192(2), Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). Still, the current situation does create momentum for structural reconsideration of these notorious weak spots in EU water legislation in future evaluations (Hey, 2009; Priest et al., 2016; Suykens, 2018b; Van Rijswick et al., 2010).